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Gannet with a fish

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Posted by Tim Gregory on May 10, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Gannet with a fish
Taken last week during the chaos of chumming from the boat. A lot harder than I imagined with the 1DS, as I couldn't just rattle off shots like I could with the 1D, as once you hit buffer lockout on the 1DS, say goodbye to shooting for 10 seconds!

50% crop
1DS MkIII
17-40L
ISO 400
F8 1/2500th

Posted by Colin Preston on May 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM
A Gannet shot with a difference a great action capture. Well done.
Posted by Andy Astbury on May 10, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Cracking action captured very well Tim :wavey:

That write speed seems slow at 10secs to gain room in the buffer - are you using UDMA cards Tim?
Posted by Tim Gregory on May 10, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Cheers guys,

Andy - I'm using Sandisk Ultra IIIs, I just did a test and once it fills up I get roughly 1-2 shots every 2 seconds until it starts to clear, it takes around 12 seconds for it to fully clear 10 shots and give me back a full buffer.
Posted by Malcolm Muir on May 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Nice, action shot from a different perspective

:toast:
Posted by Simon Litten on May 10, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Never seen a shot like this one before. A cracker!

Simon
Posted by Billy Fairburn on May 10, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Very different - I like it a lot!
Posted by Lee Newman on May 10, 2009 at 6:29 PM
A fantastic action capture :cool:
Well exposed whites & a good comp

Lee :toast:
Posted by PhilH on May 11, 2009 at 3:39 AM
Very nice and certainly different to the norm... like it loads...

:toast: :toast: :wavey: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Brett Lewis on May 11, 2009 at 5:15 AM
That's just great and well outside the box.. I'm liking this a lot too.. Nice one.

Brett :toast: :toast:
Posted by Jorne de Bruin on May 11, 2009 at 8:04 AM
Very original shot of a beautiful bird! Never seen it done this way and I like it a lot! :toast: :toast:
Posted by Craig Jones on May 11, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Very different tim and its great :wink: :wink: love the sense of 'action' in the photo, lovely :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Ian Haskell on May 11, 2009 at 4:25 PM
This is really really nice and kind of reminds me a bit of some of the recent BBC footage from South Africa. I am finding the other gannet to the right underwater a little bit of a distraction...but a very good shot nevertheless. :cool: :cool:

Ian
Posted by Colin Crowdey on May 12, 2009 at 11:29 AM
extremely well captured and anticipated. These birds dive at an incredible speed - nice to see some originality - well captured

cheers

Colin